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  • And yes, I do realize that "daikaiju" is Japanese, but I couldn't find an equivalent term in Chinese or Malay; plus there's not the same tradition of giant monster movies outside of Japan that might apply.

    new fiction: lion city daikaiju jlundberg 2009

  • The whole thing is shot on handicam from the point of view of a civilian witness to the proceedings and comes across a little like a much cleverer daikaiju-themed Blair Witch Project.

    Cloverfield Greg Tannahill 2008

  • If the 2005 Hugo nominees for Best Professional Editor (Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, David Hartwell, Stanley Schmidt, and Gordon Van Gelder) were all daikaiju and they all met up for a rumble in New York City to battle over the right to publish your new story, which one would come out victorious, and how would it all go down?

    John Joseph Adams » The Slush God Speaketh…to Trent Hergenrader 2006

  • If the 2005 Hugo nominees for Best Professional Editor (Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, David Hartwell, Stanley Schmidt, and Gordon Van Gelder) were all daikaiju and they all met up for a rumble in New York City to battle over the right to publish your new story, which one would come out victorious, and how would it all go down?

    John Joseph Adams » The Slush God Speaketh…to Donald Mead 2006

  • RODAN/WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS Classic Media: I never would have packaged these two daikaiju eiga together but I'm glad somebody did... and who better than Toho?

    VIDEO WATCHDOG's Favorite DVDs of 2008 2008

  • The whole thing is shot on handicam from the point of view of a civilian witness to the proceedings and comes across a little like a much cleverer daikaiju-themed Blair Witch Project.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Greg Tannahill 2008

  • RODAN/WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS Classic Media: I never would have packaged these two daikaiju eiga together but I'm glad somebody did... and who better than Toho?

    Archive 2008-12-14 2008

  • The Host South Korea, Joon-ho Bong Not quite a daikaiju, the titular monster is only about the size of an allosaur.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

  • This is the fifth entry in the Gamera series, a popular collection of daikaiju eiga (monster movies) produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan to rival the success of Toho Studios 'Godzilla movies during the 1960s.

    Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories 2009

  • EmploymentCrossing. com In the wake of the failure of Microsoft's baffling Seinfeld-Gates ad campaign, the Redmond, Washington-based software daikaiju is unveiling a new campaign that responds to Apple's "Mac vs. PC" ads.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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